Chapter 6
Moreover, Shen Huai seemed to be speaking up to excuse him, but in fact he was confirming something that Su Ning had not done.
Su Ning always remembered the most useful sentence in the introduction to the original plot that he remembered, which was also what the vice president at the time specifically said to joke with him - the family company of the villain with the same name as himself went bankrupt, which was the poorly managed Guangying Entertainment in the script that was acquired by Shen's Pictures.
Looking at it now, even without that sentence, Shen Huai's behavior was enough to make Su Ning alert.
Following his speech, the organizer of the variety show also came out shortly afterwards and said that they would hold a press conference in conjunction with Guangying Entertainment tomorrow to make a public response to this matter.
The public opinion was so fierce that it was about to affect the normal broadcast of the program. But naturally there were also voices of doubt under the statement, shouting that Su Ning should stop pretending to be dead and come out to apologize.
It is impossible for me to respond at this time. It is useless to say anything at this time. I will be scolded anyway. It is better to let the public vent.
The press conference tomorrow is suitable, which will leave me some time to prepare.
After Su Ning finished reading the hot search, he took one last look at Shen Huai's video, and deliberately stayed on that face for a long time.
The original owner's feelings had no effect on him. He was concerned about another thing - he felt that Shen Huai was a little like the man in the passenger seat who brought him back.
Of course, not as good looking as the other.
Su Ning's mind is now clear. It is not the chaotic time anymore. He can instinctively feel that something is wrong when he thinks back. Before Li Chu went to bed, he had asked the other party. Li Chu was very honest and told him that the assistant called the other party "Mr. Shen". He felt that this person did not seem to be the person Zhou Chunqing had found.
Su Ning was thinking about this name when he heard the "ding dong" message notification sound from his mobile phone. He looked down and saw that it was a new friend request. The name written was Zhou Chunqing, and she also sent a long message when she applied.
"Master Su, I'm sorry to bother you."
"I asked many friends to get your contact information. Li Chu probably didn't bring his phone today, so I couldn't get in touch with him. I was so anxious and wanted to ask how he was doing."
Su Ning clicked "yes", and then replied that it was okay, Li Chu was resting, and because it was too late, he would be sent back to the company tomorrow and guaranteed to be intact. Zhou Chunqing replied with a "thank you" immediately, and then sent another long message.
"I'm sorry, but when I got there I discovered that my agent had driven away without my permission. He thought I would stay the night there, so he drove off to do his own business. It almost got into trouble. Please thank Mr. Shen for helping me, otherwise I would have a hard time getting back tonight."
It’s Mr. Shen again.
Su Ning asked in detail and found out that Jiang Chenfeng flew into a rage when he found out that he had successfully taken the person away. However, Zhou Chunqing had been "out of favor" for a while because she was out filming, and no one had noticed what she had done. If she didn't get close to him, Jiang Chenfeng wouldn't be able to get angry with her.
But when the people fishing in Chunjiang secretly sent someone to send her away despite Jiang Chenfeng's anger, Zhou Chunqing was also very confused. She thought she didn't have the face to do so, so the other party told her who greeted her.
"It was Shen Mingzheng from the Shen family, Mr. Shen's idea."
Zhou Chunqing became even more confused when he heard the name.
She really didn't know this person, but she was indeed sent back to her residence safely. After returning home, she couldn't help but ask around from people she knew. Someone who was well-informed told her that this Shen Mingzheng was the executive director who was parachuted in from Shen's Pictures, so everyone in the circle called him "Little Mr. Shen."
As soon as Shen's Pictures was mentioned, Zhou Chunqing naturally thought that Su Ning was lucky enough to run into a helper in the parking lot. After all, everyone in the circle knew that Shen's Pictures and Guangying Entertainment had a good relationship and cooperated a lot, so it was understandable that they would lend a hand, and they even sent a car to pick him up.
Apart from this, she couldn't think of any other relationship, so she came to express her gratitude. Even though Su Ning explained that she was not the one who asked, she still thanked him profusely.
Zhou Chunqing was not just being humble and polite. She had just seen the hot searches and knew that because Su Ning took strict precautions, Li Chu was not dragged into this. Otherwise, it would be a disaster for a young star who had not yet debuted to be associated with such negative news. In addition, after what happened tonight, her impression of Su Ning changed instantly. She felt that this man was not as bad as the hot searches said.
Maybe there is some misunderstanding.
Su Ning stared at the name "Shen Mingzheng" she said for a long time.
There aren't many well-known people with the last name Shen in the entertainment industry. Shen Huai's Shen's Pictures is one of the most famous ones. According to the original owner's understanding, this person was not among the senior executives of Shen's Pictures, at least not before he participated in the closed training for the talent show, so Su Ning did not recognize this face when he got in the car.
The "airdrop" in the last few months doesn't sound that simple. Most importantly, if Zhou Chunqing's retelling of Diao Chunjiang's words is correct, the other party's unit is not Mr. Shen from Shen's Films, but from the "Shen Family".
To ordinary people, there seems to be no difference between the two, but Su Ning knows the difference.
He has mastered most of the original owner's memories. No matter how uneducated he was, he was still a serious insider in the circle. He knew that "Chen" was a very special surname in the domestic entertainment circle, and it was not just because of Shen's Pictures.
In fact, the Shen family is a very large family in the entertainment circle of this world, with many industries. They are deeply rooted in the circle but not very prominent, so they are not very well-known in the public's knowledge. The more famous Shen's Film Company was just started by the Shen Ting branch of the family to take advantage of the fame. It is not even the largest in the Shen family's open industries, but it has indeed developed well in recent years. Shen Huai, as Shen Ting's biological son, is a popular traffic star and seems to be gaining momentum.
But the Shen family giant tree that is truly entrenched in the circle is very low-key, so much so that people often cannot feel its presence.
It is said that the largest cinema and theater chains and even the media networks in the country have the shadow of Shen's behind them. Many well-known companies also have investments from Shen's. The largest private TV station in Hong Kong Island also belongs to Shen's. There are even more that are unknown to the public. It is a truly huge network with a century of development and many roots.
Only a Shen family like this is worthy of Diaochunjiang, a place that flatters the powerful and bullies the weak. Because of just one sentence, Zhou Chunqing was quietly sent out despite the anger of Jiang Chenfeng, a big customer. Su Ning, the only heir of Guangying Entertainment, did not receive such treatment.
This Shen Mingzheng is not simple.
The two had clearly never met before, but this person happened to show up at the parking lot of Diaochunjiang and picked him up. This was definitely not a pleasing arrangement on Shen Huai's part, otherwise Shen Huai would have said it long ago.
Who is this person?
The same question that Su Ning was thinking about was also being thought about by Chen Tao, the special assistant who was driving silently beside Shen Mingzheng.
He had just been transferred to this position not long ago and actually didn't know his immediate superior, Shen Mingzheng, very well.
This man is said to be the grandson of the legitimate head of the Shen family. The old head of the Shen family has only one daughter, who is extremely favored. However, it is said that when she was young, she had a big quarrel with her family and ran away from home and never came back. Shen Mingzheng is the child she gave birth to. He has never known his life experience and was only found back recently by accident. Therefore, he joined Shen's Film as an executive director when he first arrived. Shen Ting was also polite to him and did not dare to neglect him.
But after all, he only came back as an adult, and many people in the family secretly called him "bastard" behind his back. Although the head of the family shed tears when he recognized his relatives, there has not been a formal ceremony for Shen Mingzheng to return to his roots. Not long after, Shen Mingzheng moved from the family's base capital to Haicheng, and went to Shen's Pictures.
My family owns shares in Shen's Pictures, but we don't think much of such a small scale, so we have never been involved in the management of it. It is hard to tell whether this is a kind of demotion or experience.
As an assistant, Special Assistant Chen hopes it will be the latter.
Chen Tao is certainly not a simple assistant. He has been working in Shen's company for nearly 20 years after returning from studying abroad. He is over 40 years old and an elder in the family. His current status makes him more like the right-hand man of the reserve heir. Because of his experience and diligence, he gained the trust of his superiors in a short period of time, and he is always by his side.
But when he looked at this young man, he still couldn't see through him.
To be fair, Shen Mingzheng is a boss with a good personality. Even though he did not receive the unique elite education at home because he lived away from home, he has a clear understanding of many affairs in the entertainment industry and is very quick to learn. He even has a more sensitive nose than those reserve heirs in his family.
For example, not long after arriving at Shen's Pictures, Shen Mingzheng took the lead in investing in the fourth season of Idol Star Map, spending a large sum of money to become the largest investor behind the show, and personally modified many of the program settings and hardware.
No one expected that the fourth season of Idol Season 4, which had only mediocre popularity in the first three seasons, would become a huge hit. This made many people in the Shen family shut up, and also allowed Shen Mingzheng to gain a firm foothold in Shen's Pictures. He no longer occupied a position just by relying on his connections, and people in the industry also honestly called him "Little Mr. Shen."
Everyone seemed to realize that if this "bastard" really achieved something, he would indeed be ranked first among the family's heirs in terms of kinship.
This person has a good temper and personality. Although he is usually cold and aloof, he does not have the arrogant bad habits of treating people like slaves at home. He did not become complacent at all after his great success. These are also the reasons why Chen Tao was willing to stay with him and continue working after being assigned.
But he seemed to be hiding a lot of things.
For example, why did Mr. Shen think of coming to Diaochunjiang tonight to take Li Chu away?
Only the two of them came here tonight, which was obviously Shen Mingzheng's personal behavior. This was also the only private matter of this young workaholic boss in the past two or three months.
It's understandable that he knew Young Master Su Ning, but it's very strange that he knew Li Chu and other little idols who haven't debuted yet, and knew that they were fishing in Chunjiang tonight, and even went out of his way to rescue them.
If he was a friend he had known before, but looking at Li Chu's expression, it was obvious that he was a complete stranger to Mr. Shen and it didn't seem like they knew each other.
A smart assistant wouldn't ask these questions, but Special Assistant Chen was really curious.
It was late at night, but Shen Mingzheng did not feel sleepy at all. He sat in the passenger seat with a frown on his face, not knowing what he was thinking about.
While waiting for the traffic light, Chen Tao spoke at the right time and comforted him: "Master Su Ning just has a bad temper and a slow brain. It doesn't seem like he has any extra thoughts about Li Chu. If he wanted to do something stupid, he wouldn't have risked taking him away from Diaochun River. It's just that it's not appropriate for us to take Li Chu away at this time."
"Don't worry, Li Chu is still safe."
He felt his boss turn his head and look at him.
"I'm not worried about Li Chu's safety," Shen Mingzheng replied, "Since he has left Diaochunjiang, Su Ning may not be able to defeat Li Chu, so there's no need to worry about him."
Special Assistant Chen:?
Did I hear it right? Li Chu looked quite young, like a rabbit, and was smaller than Su Ning. What did the boss say? Did he say it the wrong way?
Shen Mingzheng did not open his mouth to explain to him, but just waved his hand and let him continue driving.
Not many people know Li Chu nowadays. He knows that others will not believe what he said. His special assistant Chen must be confused as to why he knows these unknown little idols.
Shen Mingzheng couldn't tell anyone the reason.
——Because he and Li Chu knew each other in the previous life, he knew very well that Li Chu was not as simple as he seemed.
In the previous life... If "rebirth" had not happened to him, Shen Mingzheng would not have believed such an absurd fact.
But something even more absurd than rebirth is that this world is a bloody and abusive story.
Shen Mingzheng knew that he was the protagonist.
When he died of depression in his previous life, a voice from the unknown told him all this. Everything he had experienced flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope, and he quickly accepted this fact.
No wonder, this is the only way to explain why his life has been so rough, as if God is always deliberately making things difficult for him.
At this moment, he couldn't help but recall his first life, let's call it the first life. Shen Mingzheng had been accompanied by bad luck since childhood. His mother died early due to an accidental illness left over from childbirth. His father, who was once a gentle musician, changed his temperament and became an alcoholic. He even regarded him as the culprit who took his mother's life.
His childhood was only happy for a few years at the beginning, and everything after that was a mess. As Shen Mingzheng grew older, he looked less and less like his mother. Only his eyes and the red moles under his eyes had a little bit of charm. Perhaps it was because of this similarity that his self-abandoned father did not kill him.
After they became adults, the father and son severed their relationship and never interacted with each other again. Shen Mingzheng decisively changed his name to his mother's surname, Shen.
But what Shen Mingzheng could not deny was that the talent inherited from his alcoholic father was indeed the capital for him to make a living when he grew up. After all, without the broken guitar he found at home, this face and this voice, he would not have been able to earn money for his studies by singing on the street when he was a teenager.
But no one can tell whether such talent is a curse or a gift for him.
After being discovered by a scout from Guangying Entertainment and successfully signed, the once hopeful Shen Mingzheng, who had just entered the circle, suffered his first loss at the hands of Su Ning, the young master.
It should be around this time.
Thinking of this, Shen Mingzheng turned his head to look out the car window. The neon lights of the city flashed before his eyes, and more previous memories emerged in his mind.
Su Ning, the eldest son of Guangying Entertainment, is a love-brained man with no talent or morals but who is determined to shine in the entertainment industry. After participating in a talent show and being taught a lesson by the public, he still forced his way into the circle, hoping to wash off the label of being a waste, and then forcibly took his composition and choreography as his own.
Although Shen Mingzheng's works at that time were immature, they still had an unconcealable sharpness and spirit. Two of his songs became popular songs of the year and even reversed Su Ning's reputation for a time.
Su Ning failed to debut in the talent show, so they treated him as a blood bag and naturally would not let him debut openly.
It was then that he discovered that the contract with Guangying Entertainment was a blatantly unfair clause. Not only did he have nowhere to turn to, but even if he disclosed the matter, the copyright of the work still belonged to the company according to the contract. Not only could he not get back what belonged to him, but he might even be sued by the company because of this matter, and owe a huge debt that he could not repay for the rest of his life. Yan Shanting
Of course, he was not the only one who was harmed by Guangying Entertainment and Su Ning. Li Chu, who was also a trainee, was also harmed.
It turned out that Li Chu gave up a more powerful idol company and signed with this one just because of Guangying Entertainment's promise to make a debut and make money as soon as possible. He wanted to make money to pay off his debts and pay the penalty so that he could pull her sister Zhou Chunqing out of Jiang Chenfeng's studio.
But because of what Su Ning said, that his dancing ability was too good, and the young master thought that competing at the same time would create a clear contrast with himself, Li Chu was removed from the list of Idol Star Map Season 4 and missed this opportunity.
Li Chu could wait, but how could his sister, who depended on him and was still living under the hands of a man like Jiang Chenfeng, wait?
He wanted to resist.
Shen Mingzheng knew very well what happened tonight.
Li Chu was instructed by someone to use himself as a bargaining chip to expose the negative news about Su Ning and Jiang Chenfeng, which caused the fourth season of Idol Star Map to be suspended. Subsequently, Guangying Entertainment was caught in a huge public opinion storm, and its subsequent bankruptcy and acquisition were also greatly affected by this incident.
These things that happened in the previous life are all chain reactions caused by the current "Suning bullying", like the continuous collapse of dominoes after being pushed down.
Of course, Shen Mingzheng in his previous life also contributed to this.
He had been secretly collecting evidence of the company's exploitation of its artists, and had gone through a lot of hardships to do so. However, just like Li Chu, he did not realize that his painstaking efforts were ultimately for the benefit of others, namely Shen's Pictures.
It was a long time before he realized that the evil Master Su was truly wronged in this matter.
By that time, the truth no longer mattered.
Because the person who led all this behind the scenes, because the actor Shen Huai, who inherited the family business after his glorious retirement, had successfully swallowed up Guangying Entertainment by many means, and became one of the candidates for the heir to the main family of the Shen family from the side branch as he wished.
However, this was just a small beginning of Shen Mingzheng's bloody history in his previous life.
After all, this is a story about abusing the protagonist.
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